Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-11

also mado love to the ladies'
arose and shut my window. The
tumtum of thet banjo, and the light.
lCyiSh carol of that old college song.
vae more than | could bear TO hear.
Charlie Trenholm used TO sing that
song. How often he has dfopne5l into
u.y room on the Rue dc In Sorbonne.
drown himself into a chair, and struck
oet that tune from his guitar, accompa.
lying the music with the 'amihar
words. He sang beautifully and /
never tired TO hear him, but | don't
hoc TO hear any one else sing those
words, and never Will i'll can help it..
VIC were students together at the
University He at Ecolc de Droit and
lat lEcolc de Mcdecin. He came from
England, from America. We met en-
trly 10y chance, Int in a very few DAYS
after We found ourselves neighbors in
tire Hotel Lafayette We were perfectly
irs parable. Jim. he used to say.
IF / had not met you / should have
gone back 10 London within month
II Tie time / came here. This law b1si-
less is SO awfully dry, you know.
ought 70 have been painter, or q
sculptor or anything else than a bar
r.t,r Won't 1 look frightful in a wig
and gown
We found time during or first year
to explore Paris from end 10 end.
llCrc was no hy-way with which we
were unfamiliar within the city walls !;
no path in the Bots and no corner in the
Louvre which We did not know az well
as our own faces. Many anight during
the warmer portions Of the year il Was
daylight when We came home from our
s1olls. We found the heights Of
Montnaitrc or the rcccsseso OF the Lux
mbourg cooler after the bouIevardS
were deserted tlmn our chambers.
But from November TO April Paris DOGS
not present many charms out Of doors
after midnight, snd it was in Noycm-
her that the adventure occurred which
formed the basis Of this story.
Trenholm and | had been to the
opera. We had crowded in with others
Who preferred paying two francs for
standWg-place to giving twenty for
scat, and had been almost carried away
with the grand rendition Of Ncrli's
masterpiece. Neither OF us was impe-
cmious. We had ample resources for
all possible needs, but a student has his
notions, and We would have thought it
very un-EO' Cmian 70 take a box. For
the same reason We lived at tine Hotel
Lafayette instead Of some fashionable
}DnsioD, and altcrnated between the
restaurants in the Place San Michel
and the c0fcs ON the boulcyards II was
Lot far from T. o'clock when we cross
cd Iout Ncuf on the night in question,
and as We turned into the quay ON the
Gi,r side We saw child lying asleep
ou tic sidewalk. with one arm curved
gracefully under her head for pillow.
am not hard-hearicd. hope, but /
have seen many children during my
stay iu Paris who might quite as well
have induced me to pause a3 this one.
/ should, Therefore, have continued
uy walk without interruption had not
l4ulolm. whose arm Was passed
Though mine. Detained me.
"Ilat'sa pretty girl, he said, OBJ
sowing Tie child with interest. The
moon slolr brightly uron the quay,
and 1t Was nearly as hight as at noon
ile. "SLe ought not 10 lie there,
ht probably she ha5 no better place.
Poor thing
The child moved slightly in hcrslcop,
and her brow contracted AS though her
dreams were of an unpleasant nature.
Ihn tie lips parted, and IN tired
and discouraged tone the single word
"dcia SO came forth.
Come, / whispered t. my com
ramon, "wo must not let her awaken
and find MS here staring at her.
"No, ' ass,Ltcd Trenholm: bat he
did not stir. and the next thing knew
hc was iucciing on the curbstOnc and
stIoking back the child's long, black
hair. which hung unbranded about her
face. His touch was so gentle that 1t
did not rouse her at first. and feared
10 urge him too much lest my voice
should disturb her. Besides, Tren-
holm Was "a terribly set fellow when he
d. cd 10 be-
TO my discontinue the girl suddenly
opened a pair Of large black Dyes and
ru2cd in astOushmcut at the unfamiliar
face SO near her own, but she did not
eprirc up and run away, as / imagined
size would. and Trenholm and ! were
now hardly in condition to retreat,
either.
"Why are you sleeping here .? " he
sand 10 the girl, using the French Ian
ouaec. which her exclamation showed
She understood. "Do you not know
That such a thing is very dangerous?
The girl raised herself to sitting
posture and said, ironically:
"Nhcre would you advise mo to
lodge. MONSIEUR? 1t the Grand
Eotd:
surely ut some other place than
..;.." RESPONDED Trenholm, gravely.
"Oh. il is very good, tins place
sd the Girl, looking him boldly III the
,v.s. "See. the bricks are firm, they |
VII not break down. There IS plenty !
of air in my chamber, and the rent Is
cIcap. What more could one ask
Trenholm looked at her without the
,laoe Of "a smile in answer to her ban
tr.ug words. and presently she seemed |
q. r,ltut little beneath his earnest |
sazc.
" Come" She said. Il will tell You |
AL You are quite right This cham
her is not good. was on my way to |
IA batter one when sat down here Tor
% moment and fell asleep. Had not
done 80 / should have been by TINS
time in fine bed, quiet one, where /
could have slept as comfortably as !
pleased and as long as | liked. See l
Will show you where l intended TO !
sleep. II is there ! -.
Weboth trembled violently. For TINS
child had run to the side of Pont Nenf |
and was pointing down into the stream
below.
Trenholm caught her roughly 10y the |
arm. as if he feared she was about to
plunge over the parapet.
w hat is that you are saying lou
were going 10 drown yourself
you are right, replied this strange
child imperturbably. "And Why not !
How many people DO it Every day !
Won can see the boats fishing for bodies.
/ know. have watched them. | have |
been TO the little building back OF Notro |
Dame, also. The persons on the slabs |
there are as still as Pont Neut Is at
tbis moment. Nothing troubles them.
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